Welcome to the Seventh Annual Steamboat Race Every year we have an online steamboat race - it has been a tradition since 2001. This year we held the race, despite being in the middle of the crisis over our Queen, the eminent Steamboat Delta Queen herself. You will be reminded of this situation again by our sponsors this year, the online steamboat community and the Save the Delta Queen Task Force. This year Jerry Canavit will race the Delta Queen against the Delta King, piloted by Franz, Carmen, and Leonie of Steamboats.org. The Delta Queen and Delta King are twin ships, built together in Scotland in 1926, and they ran the Sacramento to San Francisco route together until World War II. You can see the Delta Queen at the top of this page and the Delta King above. Both photographs are from 2007. For lack of a real river venue, the race will take place at the pond in my front yard, here in Arizona, known as The Lakes of Tempe, for the second year in a row. I will be your moderator. Click the link at the bottom of each page to continue. - Nori, webmaster of Steamboats.com and official steamboat race photographer Click here to see the race.